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ACTS OF ASSEMBLY 



KB LATINO TO 



FAIKMOUNT PAKK. 



PHILADELPHIA: 

KING & BATRD, PRINTERS, No. 607 SANSOM STREET. 

1868 



ACTS OF ASSEMBLY 



RELATING TO 



FAIEMOUNT PARK 



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PHILADELPHIA: 
KING & BAIRD, PRINTERS, No. 607 SANSOM STREET. 

1868. 



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JAN 19 !905 
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Appropriating ground for public purposes in the City of Philadelphia. 

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- 
resentatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in 
General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the 
authority of the same, That the title to and ownership of 
the area of ground which is bounded as follows, beginning 
at a point on the river Schuylkill at the intersection of the 
north line of Bridge street and low water mark in said 
river, thence along said north line of Bridge street to 
Bridgewater street, thence along the easterly side of Bridge- 
water street to the north line of Haverford street as now 
used, thence along the northeast line of said Haverford 
street to the Pennsylvania Railroad, thence along the said 
Pennsylvania Railroad to the Junction Railroad, thence 
along the said Junction Railroad, its several courses and 
distances, to a point where it intersects Girard avenue, 
thence westwardly along the north line of Girard avenue 
to Forty-first street, thence northward along Forty-first 
street to Lansdowne avenue, thence along said Lansdowne 
avenue westwardly to Belmont avenue, thence along said 
Belmont avenue northwardly to Montgomery avenue, 
thence eastwardly along said Montgomery avenue in a 
direct line to the water line of Fairmount dam, thence 
down the river Schuylkill along the low water line thereof 
to the place of beginning, excepting therefrom and thereout 
that part of which the Schuylkill Navigation, the Pennsyl- 
vania Central, the Junction and the Connecting Railroad 
Companies are respectively seized for the execution of 
their franchises, shall be vested in the City of Philadelphia, 



to be laid out and maintained forever as an open public 
place and park for the health and enjoyment of the people 
of said city, and the preservation of the purity of the water 
supply of the city of Philadelphia. . 

Sec. 2. That the Mayor, the Presidents of the Select 
and Common Councils, Commissioner of City Property, the 
Chief Engineer and Surveyor, and the Chief Engineer of 
the Water Works of said city, together with ten citizens 
of said city, who shall be appointed for five years, five of 
whom by the District Court, and five of whom by the 
Court of Common Pleas of said city, be and the same are 
hereby constituted Commissioners of said park ; they shall 
organize annually, on the first Monday of June, by the 
election of a president and secretary, but they shall receive 
no compensation for their services as commissioners. Pro- 
vided that whenever a vacancy shall occur in that part of 
the said commissioners appointed by the courts, the court 
from which the appointment was made shall fill the vacancy. 

Sec. 3. That the owners of the said ground by the first 
section of this act appropriated for public purposes, shall 
be paid for the same by the City of Philadelphia, according 
to the value which shall be ascertained by a jury of twelve 
disinterested freeholders to be appointed by the Court of 
Quarter Sessions of said city, upon the petition of said 
commissioners ; and if the said commissioners shall delay 
petitioning as aforesaid for the period of sixty days after 
notice given of their taking possession of said ground, then 
said jury shall be appointed upon the petition of any per- 
son whose property shall be so taken. Provided, however, 
that in any case the said commissioners may negotiate and 
agree with the owners of any part of said ground as to the 
price thereof, and said price shall be reported to the said 
Court of Quarter Sessions, and if confirmed and approved 



by said court, shall be conclusive upon said city. And 
provided further, that whenever it shall be necessary to 
have recourse to a jury to assess the damages for any prop- 
erty to be taken as aforesaid, the said jury shall estimate 
the advantage to property adjoining or in the vicinity, and 
said jury shall proceed and their award shall be reviewed 
and enforced in the same manner as provided by law in 
the opening of roads in the city of Philadelphia. 

Sec. 4. That the commissioners of said park, after they 
shall have secured possession of the ground, shall adopt a 
plan for the improvement and maintenance thereof, and 
shall have powers to proceed with the same, and all moneys 
expended shall be under their supervision, but no contracts 
shall be made for said improvement unless an appropria- 
tion therefor shall have been first made by the Councils of 
said city. 

Sec. 5. That as soon as the said commissioners shall 
have fnlly organized, they shall have the care and manage- 
ment of Fairmount park on both sides of the river Schuyl- 
kill, and all plans and expenditures for the improvement 
"and maintenance of the same shall be under their control, 
subject to such appropriations as Councils may from time 
to time make as aforesaid. 

Sec. 6. That the commissioners of said park are hereby 
further empowered, whenever the Councils of the city of 
Philadelphia shall so declare by ordinance, to take such 
other land as may be deemed proper by said Councils for 
the extension of said Fairmount park, between the Spring 
Garden Water Works and the Columbia bridge and be- 
tween the Reading Railroad and the river Schuylkill, ac- 
cording to the value which shall be ascertained by a jury 



of twelve disinterested freeholders, to be appointed by the 
Court of Quarter Sessions of said city upon the petition of 
said commissioners; and if the said commissioners shall 
delay petitioning as aforesaid for a period of sixty days 
after notice given of their taking possession of said ground, 
then said jury shall be appointed upon the petition of any 
person whose property shall be so taken. Provided, how- 
ever, that in any case the said commissioners may negotiate 
directly and agree with the owners of any part of said 
ground as to the price thereof, and said price shall be re- 
ported to the said Court of Quarter Sessions, and if con- 
firmed or approved by said court, shall be conclusive upon 
said city; and provided further, that whenever it shall be 
necessary to have recourse to a jury to assess the damages 
for any property to be taken as aforesaid, the said jury 
shall estimate the advantage to property adjoining or in 
the vicinity, and said jury shall proceed, and their award 
shall be reviewed and enforced in the same manner as pro- 
vided by law in the opening of roads in the city of Phila- 
delphia. 

Approved March 26, 1867. 



A SUPPLEMENT 

To an Act, entitled " An Act appropriating ground for public purposes, in the City 
of Philadelphia," approved the twenty-sixth day of March, Anno Domini one 
thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven. 

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of 
Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 
General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the 
authority of the same, That the boundaries of the Fairmount 
Park in the City of Philadelphia shall be the following, to 
wit: Beginning at a point in the northeasterly line of 
property owned and occupied by the Reading Railroad 
Company, near the City bridge over the river Schuylkill at 
the Falls, where said northeasterly line is intersected by 
the line dividing property of H. Duhring from that of F. 
Stoever and T. Johnson ; extending from thence in a south- 
westerly direction upon said dividing line and its prolon- 
gation to the middle of the Ford road ; from thence by a 
line passing through the southeast corner of Forty-ninth 
and Lebanon streets to George's run; thence along the 
several courses of said run to a point fourteen hundred 
and eighty-seven and a half feet from the middle of the 
Pennsylvania Railroad, measured at right angles thereto ; 
thence by a straight line through the northeast corner of 
Forty-third and Hancock streets to the northerly side of 
Girard avenue near Fortieth street; thence by the said 
northerly line of Girard avenue to the easterly side of the 
Junction Railroad as now used ; thence by the said easterly 
side of the Junction Railroad and the Pennsylvania Ri il- 



road to the north side of Haverford street ; thence by the 
northerly side of said Haverford street to the westerly side 
of Bridgewater street ; thence by said Bridgewater street 
to the north line of Bridge street ; thence by said Bridge 
street to the west abutment of the Suspension bridge ; 
thence by the northwesterly side of the Suspension bridge 
and Callowhill street to the angle in said street, on the 
southwesterly side of Fairmount basin; thence by the 
northerly side of Callowhill and Biddle streets to the 
westerly side of Twenty-fifth street ; thence by the said 
Twenty-fifth street to the southwesterly side of Penn- 
sylvania avenue; thence by the southwesterly side of 
Pennsylvania avenue to the west side of Thirty-third 
street; thence along the westerly side of Thirty- 
third street to the southwesterly line of Ridge avenue; 
thence along said Ridge avenue to the southwesterly 
line of South Laurel Hill Cemetery, (north of Hunting- 
don street;) thence by and along said property line to 
such a distance from the shore line of the river Schuyl- 
kill as will permit the location of a carriage road one 
hundred feet wide upon its margin; thence along 
said river shore and its several courses as may be most 
practicable, at the same distance as above specified, (pro- 
vided said distance shall not exceed one hundred and fifty 
feet,) to a point opposite the intersection of the Ridge 
turnpike and School lane ; thence northwardly to a point 
on the southwesterly side of said turnpike road opposite 
to the southeasterly side of said School lane ; thence by 
the southwesterly side of the Ridge turnpike road and its 
several courses to the southeasterly side of the Wissahickon 
creek ; thence by the several courses of the said south- 
easterly side of Wissahickon creek to the Schuylkill river ; 
thence across the water course of said river to the north- 
easterly line of the Reading Railroad Company's property 



as now occupied and in use, at the City boundary line ; 
thence along said northeasterly line, as now occupied and 
used by said railroad company, to the place of beginning ; 
excepting, nevertheless, thereout the several Water Works 
and their appurtenances, which are included within these 
boundaries, and such uses of the premises immediately 
adjacent to the same, and such other portions of the ground 
as are described in this section, as the City of Philadel- 
phia may from time to time require for the purposes of its 
water department. 

Sec. 2. That there shall be laid out and constructed a 
road of easy and practicable grades extending from the 
intersection of the northerly line of the Park by Belmont 
avenue on the westerly side of the river Schuylkill to the 
head of Roberts' Hollow, and thence along said hollow 
and the river Schuylkill to the foot of City avenue, laid 
out with the ground contiguous thereto for ornamentation, 
of such width and so constructed as the Commissioners of 
Fairmount park appointed under authority of the act of 
the General Assembly of the Commonwealth may deter- 
mine. And such road and its contiguous ground are 
hereby declared to be a part of the aforesaid park ; and 
said Park Commissioners are hereby authorized and re- 
quired to ascertain, by a proper survey, the limits thereof, 
which survey they shall file in the survey department of 
the city of Philadelphia. And it shall also be the duty 
of said Park Commissioners to appropriate the shores of 
the Wissahickon creek on both sides of the same from its 
mouth to the Paul's Mill road, and of such width as may 
embrace the road now passing along the same ; and may 
also protect the purity of the water of said creek, and by 
passing along the crest of the heights which are on either 
side of said creek, may preserve the beauty of its scenery. 
The said Park Commissioners are hereby authorized and 



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required to cause a proper survey to be made of said 
grounds upon the Wissahickon, and to file said survey in 
the Survey Department of the city of Philadelphia, and 
the grounds and creek hereby appropriated are declared 
to be a part of Fairmount park. 

Sec. 3. That the title to and ownership of the ground 
within said boundaries shall be vested in the City of 
Philadelphia, excepting therefrom so much as shall be 
required by the Schuylkill Navigation Company, the Phila- 
delphia and Beading, the Junction and Connecting KaiL 
road Companies for the execution of their franchises as 
now provided by law. 

Sec. 4. So much of the ground as was embraced in 
the Act to which this is a Supplement, approved the 
twenty-sixth day of March, one thousand eight hundred 
and sixty-seven, and is not included in the above boun- 
daries, is hereby released from all claim of title by the said 
city, with the same effect as if it had never been included. 

Sec. 5. That all the grounds taken within the boun- 
daries of the Fairmount Park by the first sections of 
this Act, shall be subject to all the powers and control 
given by the Act to which this is a Supplement to the City 
of Philadelphia and the Park Commissioners designated 
by or appointed under said Act; and the owners of all 
ground taken for the Park, and others interested therein, 
shall be compensated as in said Act is directed and pro- 
vided. 

Sec. 6. The said Commissioners shall have power and 
authority, from time to time, to vacate any street or road 
within the boundaries of the Park, (excepting Girard 
avenue,) and to open for public use such other roads, 
avenues and streets therein as they deem necessary. 

Sec. 7. The Councils of the City of Philadelphia shall 
cause, under the supervision of the Department of Surveys, 



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such alterations of the plan of survey of the Twenty-fourth 
Ward as lies between Fairmount Park as by this Act 
established, the Pennsylvania Railroad and the City avenue, 
and of the contiguous parts of the Twentieth and Twenty- 
eighth Wards, as may become necessary or expedient by 
reason of the extension as aforesaid of the limits of the 
Fairmount Park, and cause the same to be established in 
manner as now provided by law for revising or laying out 
plans of survey in and for the City of Philadelphia; and 
shall lay out an avenue as one of the streets of the city, 
of the width of not less than one hundred feet, as a boun- 
dary of the Park on the southwest, west and northwest sides 
thereof, extending from Girard avenue to the river Schuyl- 
kill, at or near the Falls bridge ; and also upon the eastern 
side of the river from the intersection of Pennsylvania 
avenue and Thirty-third street, northward along the boun- 
dary of said Park to the river Schuylkill. 

Sec. 8. The jurisdiction of the Commissioners of the 
Park shall extend to the breadth of the footway next the 
Park, in all avenues or streets which shall bound upon the 
Park, and they shall direct the manner in which such foot- 
ways shall be laid out, curbed, paved, planted and orna- 
mented ; which footways shall not be less than twenty feet 
in width on any avenue or street of the width of one hun- 
dred feet, and of like proportion upon any street or avenue 
of a greater or less width, unless otherwise directed by the 
Commissioners. 

Sec. 9. The said Park Commissioners or jury who shall 
assess the compensation to the owners for the ground 
taken, shall ascertain and make compensation for build- 
ings, as well as the ground taken; but all buildings 
and machinery and fixtures not required by the Park 
Commission, shall be removed by the owners thereof 
whenever payment of the compensation awarded them 



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shall be made or tendered to them ; and upon such pay- 
ment or tender, the Park Commissioners shall forth- 
with take possession of the premises. If any owner or 
lessee of ground taken cannot he found, notice of the 
taking and valuation of his land shall be given by adver- 
tisement in two daily papers, published in Philadelphia, 
six times, and in the Legal Intelligencer twice ; and the 
amount awarded in such case to the owner or lessee, shall 
remain in the City treasury, until such owner shall produce 
the decree of the court having jurisdiction in the premises, 
ordering the said moneys to be paid to him or his legal 
representatives. 

Sec. 10. The said Commissioners and jury may make 
partial or special reports, from time to time, to the court, 
as they may be ready to do so, and the court may act upon 
such reports separately; and the powers of the jury shall 
continue, unless limited by the court", or they be required 
by the court to make report, until they shall have reported 
on all the cases on which they have been appointed, 
although a term or terms of the court shall have inter- 
vened ; and jurors, not to exceed six in number, may be 
appointed upon one or more cases, according to the order 
of the court made ; and whenever any report of the said 
Commissioners or of the jury shall have been confirmed 
by the court, the valuation made shall be forthwith pay- 
able by the City of Philadelphia. 

Sec. 11. The City of Philadelphia shall be authorized and 
required to raise by loans, from time to time, such sums of 
money as shall be necessary to make compensation for all 
grounds heretofore taken or to be taken for said Fairmount 
Park, and for the laying out and construction thereof for 
public use ; for the permanent care and improvement 
thereof, and for all culverts and other means of preserving 
the Schuylkill water pure for the use of the citizens of said 



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city ; and shall annually assess taxes for keeping in repair 
and good order the said Park; and shall also provide for 
the payment of the interest on all said loans, and the usual 
sinking fund for the redemption thereof. 

S~c. 12. The said Park Commissioners shall, from time 
to time, appoint such officers, agents and subordinates as 
they may deem necessary, for the purposes of this Act and 
the Act to which this is a Supplement ; and they shall pre- 
scribe the duties and the compensation to be paid them ; 
and so much of the second section of the Act to which this 
is a Supplement, as requires that the Secretary shall be 
chosen from the Commissioners, be and the same is hereby 
repealed. 

Sec. 13. It shall be lawful for said Park Commissioners 
to acquire title to the whole of any tract of land, part of 
which shall fall within the boundaries mentioned in the 
first sections of this Act, and to take conveyance thereof in 
the name of the City of Philadelphia ; and such part thereof 
as shall lie beyond or within the said Park limits, again to 
sell and convey in absolute fee simple to any purchaser or 
purchasers thereof, by deeds to be signed by the Mayor, 
under the seal of the City, to be affixed by direction of Coun- 
cils; either for cash, or part cash and part to be secured by 
bond and mortgage to the City, paying all cash into the 
City treasury : Provided, that the proceeds of such sales 
shall be paid into the sinking fund for the redemption of 
the loan created under the provisions of this Act: Pro- 
vided also, that no Commissioner, nor any officer under 
the Park Commission, shall in any wise be directly or in- 
directly interested in any such sale of lands by the Com- 
missioners as aforesaid ; and if any Commissioner or officer 
aforesaid shall act in violation of this proviso, he shall, if 
a Commissioner, be* subject to expulsion; if an officer, to 
be discharged, by a majority of votes of the Board of Park 



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Commissioners, after an opportunity afforded of explana- 
tion and defence. 

Sec. 14. The said Board of Commissioners shall annu- 
ally hereafter,, in the month of December, make to the 
Mayor of the City of Philadelphia, a report of their pro- 
ceedings, and a statement of their expenditures for the 
preceding year. 

Sec. 15. The said Park Commissioners shall have exclu- 
sive power to lease from year to year, all houses and build- 
ings within the Park limits, which may be let without 
prejudice to the interests and purposes of the Park, by 
leases to be signed by their President and Secretary, and 
to collect the rents and pay them into the City treasury. 

Sec. 16. All houses and buildings now built or to be 
built on any part of the Park grounds, by or for boat or 
skating clubs, or zoological or other purposes, shall be 
taken to have rights subordinate to the public purposes 
intended to be subserved by acquiring and laying out the 
Park, and shall be subject to the regulations of said Park 
Commissioners, under licenses which shall be approved by 
the Commission, and signed by the President and Secre- 
tary, and will subject them to their supervision and to 
removal, or surrender to the City, whensoever the said 
Commissioners may require. 

Sec. 17. The said Park Commissioners shall have power 
to accept in the name and behalf of the City of Philadel- 
phia, devises, bequests and donations of lands, moneys, 
objects of art and natural history, maps and books, or 
other things, upon such trusts as may be prescribed by the 
testator or donor; provided such trusts be satisfactory to 
the Commission, and compatible with the purposes of said 
Park. 

Sec. 18. None of the Park Commissioners, nor any per- 
son employed by them, shall have power to create any 



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debt or obligation to bind said Board of Commissioners, 
except by the express authority of the said Commissioners 
at a meeting duly convened. 

Sec. 19. The said Park Commissioners shall have the 
power to govern, manage, lay out, plant and ornament the 
said Fairmount Park, and to maintain the same in good 
order and repair; and to construct all proper bridges, 
buildings, railways, and other improvements therein, and 
to repress all disorders therein under the provisions here- 
inafter contained. 

Sec. 20. That the said Park Commissioners shall have 
authority to license the laying down, and the use for a 
term of years, from time to time, of such passenger rail- 
ways as they may think will comport with the use and en- 
joyment of the said Park by the public, upon such terms 
as said Commissioners may agree ; all emoluments from 
which shall be paid into the City treasury. 

Sec. 21. The said Park shall be under the following 
rules and regulations, and such others as the Park Com- 
missioners may from time to time ordain. 

I. No persons shall turn cattle, goats, swine or horses 
or other animals loose into the Park. 

II. No persons shall carry fire-arms, or shoot birds in 
the Park, or within fifty yards thereof, or throw stones or 
other missiles therein. 

III. No one shall cut, break, or in anywise injure or de- 
face the trees, shrubs, plants, turf, or any of the buildings, 
fences, structures or statuary, or foul any fountains or 
springs within the Park. 

IV. No person shall drive or ride therein at a rate ex- 
ceeding seven miles an hour. 

V. No one shall ride or drive therein, upon any other 
than upon the avenues and roads. 

VI. No coach or vehicle used for hire, shall stand upon 



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any part of the Park for the purpose of hire, nor except 
in waiting for persons taken by it into the Park, unless 
in either case at points designated by the Commission. 

VII. No wagon or vehicle of burden or traffic shall pass 
through the Park, except upon such road or avenue as 
shall be designated by the Park Commissioners for burden 
transportation. 

VIII. No street railroad car shall come within the lines 
of the Park without the license of the Park Commission. 

IX. No person shall expose any article for sale within 
the Park without the previous license of the Park Com- 
mission. 

X. No person shall take ice from the Schuylkill within 
the Park without the license of the said Commission first 
had, upon such terms as they may think proper. 

XI. No threatening, abusive, insulting, or indecent 
language shall be allowed in the Park. 

XII. No gaming shall be allowed therein, nor any 
obscene or indecent act therein. 

XIII. No person shall go in to bathe within the Park. 

XIV. No person shall fish or disturb the water-fowl in 
the pool, or any pond, or birds in any part of the Park, 
nor discharge any fire-works therein, nor affix any bills or 
notices therein. 

XV. No person shall have any musical, theatrical, or 
other entertainment therein, without the license of the 
Park Commissioners. 

XVI. No person shall enter or leave the Park except by 
such gates or avenues as may be for such purpose arranged. 

XVII. No gathering or meeting of any kind, assembled 
through advertisement, shall be permitted in the Park 
without the previous permission of the Commission ; nor 
shall any gathering or meeting for political purposes in 
the Park be permitted under any circumstances. 



XVIII. That no intoxicating liquors shall be allowed 
to be sold within said Park. 

Sec. 22. Any person who shall violate any of said rules 
and regulations, and any others which shall be ordained 
by the said Park Commissioners, for the government of said 
Park, not inconsistent with this act, or the laws and con- 
stitutions of this State and United States — the power to 
ordain which rules and regulations is hereby expressly 
given to said Commissioners — shall be guilty of a misde- 
meanor, and shall pay such fine as may be prescribed by 
said Park Commissioners, not to exceed five dollars for 
each and every violation thereof, to be recovered before 
any alderman of said City, as debts of that amount are re- 
coverable, which fines shall be paid into the City treasury; 
Provided, That if said Park Commissioners should license 
the taking of ice in said Park, or the entry of any street 
railroad car therein, or articles for sale, or musical enter- 
tainments, it may be with such compensation as they may 
think proper, to be paid into the City treasury; And 
provided, That any person violating any of said rules and 
regulations shall be further liable to the full extent of any 
damage by him or her committed, in trespass or other ac- 
tion ; and any tenant or licensed party who shall violate 
the said rules, or any of them, or consent to or permit the 
same to be violated on his or her or their premises, shall 
forfeit his or her or their lease or license, and shall be 
liable to be forthwith removed by a vote of the Park Com- 
mission ; and every lease and license shall contain a clause 
making it cause of forfeiture thereof for the lessee or 
party licensed to violate or permit or suffer any violation 
of said rules and regulations or any of them. It shall be 
the duty of the police appointed to duty in the Park, 
without warrant, forthwith to arrest any offender against 
the preceding rules and regulations, whom they may de- 



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tect in the commission of such offence, and to take the 
person or persons so arrested forthwith before a magis- 
trate having competent jurisdiction. 

Sec. 23. All rents, license charges and fees; all fines, 
proceeds of all sales, except of lands purchased, and profits 
of whatsoever kind to be collected, received, or howsoever 
realized, shall be paid into the City treasury, as a fund to 
be exclusively appropriated by Councils for Park purposes, 
under the direction of said Commission: Provided, That 
moneys or property given or bequeathed to the Park Com- 
missioners upon specified trusts shall be received and re- 
ceipted for by their Treasurer, and held and applied ac- 
cording to the trusts specified. 

Sec. 24. That the Councils of the City of Philadelphia 
be and they are hereby authorized to widen and straighten 
any street laid upon the public plans of said City, as they 
may think requisite to improve the approaches to Fair- 
mount Park. 

Sec. 25. That nothing in this Act contained shall sus- 
pend or affect any proceeding pending in court under any 
existing law ; but the same shall be proceeded in as if this 
Act had not been passed. 

Sec 26. The damages for ground and property taken 
for the purpose of this Act shall be ascertained, adjusted 
and assessed in like manner as is prescribed by the Act to 
which this is a supplement. 

Sec. 27. The said Park Commissioners shall employ, 
equip, and pay a Park force, adequate to maintain good 
order therein and in all houses thereupon; which force 
shall be subject to the orders of the Mayor upon any 
emergency ; and so far as said force shall consist of others 
than the hands employed to labor in the Park, it shall be 
appointed and controlled as the other police of the City. 



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Sec. 28. There shall be an additional assistant appointed 

by the City Solicitor, whose duty it shall be, under the 

direction of the City Solicitor, to attend to the assessments 

of damages, and to such other business of a legal nature 

connected with the Park as said Commissioners may 

require. 

GEO. T. THORN, 

Speaker of the House of Representatives. 

JAS. L. GRAHAM, 

Speaker of the Senate. 

Approved the fourteenth day of April, Anno Domini 
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, (A. D. 1868.) 

JNO. W. GEARY. 



Office of the 
Secretary of the Commonwealth, 
Harrisburg, April 17th, A. D. 1868. 



Pennsylvania, ss. 



I do hereby certify, That the foregoing and annexed 
[seal.] is a full, true and correct copy of the original 
Act of the General Assembly, entitled " A Supplement 
to an Act entitled ' An Act appropriating ground for 
public purposes in the City of Philadelphia,' approved 
the Twenty-sixth day of March, Anno Domini one thou- 
sand eight hundred and sixty-seven," as the same remains 
on file in this office. 

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand 
and caused the seal of the Secretary's Office to be affixed, 
the day and year above written. 

E. JORDAN, 

Secretary of the Commonwealth. 



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